cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/48221648
Hussein said he was in disbelief that he was told to convert or leave — for the first time in his life — at a Republican convention with the tagline, “Unity drives victory.”
That slogan, touted by the governor on press releases, placards, lanyards and even the elephant he procured to march through the convention hall, became a rallying cry for the state’s leaders and party nominees heading into November. If fractured, they warned, the party could lose the state to Democrats and their U.S. Senate nominee, Austin state Rep. James Talarico.
But in spite of that warning, members were willing to lose the support of Muslim conservatives.
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Hussein attended a panel from the Judeo-Christian Caucus moderated by Dr. Rick Scarborough, a former Southern Baptist pastor and the president of Recover America, an organization to engage ministers and pastors in politics.
Speakers told the audience that immigrants who don’t believe in Judeo-Christian values will erode those values and create problems for America. Scarborough accused Muslims of lying to win political power.
“You’re going to find Muslims that aren’t being antagonistic or mean, at least not publicly. But I’ll guarantee, if they get power, they’ll cut your head off as believers of Christ,” he said.
They don’t want Unity so much as Uniformity.
White sheets, white faces, and white hoods
Muhtaseb, an engineer and business owner, said Muslims are conservative by nature.
“We believe in Adam and Eve,” he said. “We don’t believe in this, multiple gender. We don’t drink. We don’t gamble. We are against pornography.”
They hope to bring more Muslims into the Republican Party.
The approach of “we’re also bigots” is crazy. They agree on hate, that’s the coalition that they want to build.
It’s notable that, for Israel, genocide per se isn’t the problem. Rather, it is who the victims are. This is the same.
Leopards dine well once again.
If you’re anything other than a rich, white, Supply Side Christian, truly cis male you are crazy to associate with the GOP. The core ideals of the party include owning you as farm equipment.
(Updated Christian to reflect the reality on the ground)
Even “Christian” here requires an asterisk, as preaching most of what Jesus said will get you labelled “woke” and targeted as a “librul”.
Source: am a somewhat-progressive Christian who was at a hard-right church (trying to be the voice of reason) for way too long.
Valid point. I changed it to Supply Side Christian.
Of course, the narrowing of the hierarchy never ends for fascists. Eventually you’ll need to be a more specific kind of Supply Side Christian.
Yeah, it’s all the worst evangelical tendencies (“I bet God is happy he finally has us, here at 3rd avenue primitive KJV-only fundamental second baptist church, since everyone else is so wrong!”) amplified by all the worst right-wing tendencies (but then, maybe I repeat myself).
Emo Philips had a great and humorous summary of this problem:
"I will be voting for Republicans who denounce this extremism.”
👍 Good luck with that, buddy.
Any new cult demands you leave the old one. Hussein knew this, he just thought people would care.
Duh doy what did those idiots think would happen? That party has been anti-muslim since forever. They still blab on about them doing 9/11 ffs.
I genuinely don’t understand the complete lack of self-respect that these tokens must experience on the daily. Pathetic.
Nazis gonna Nazi. When we gonna start shooting these motherfuckers?
